Letters of Pliny (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789391560454)

Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice. A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters address an astonishing range of topics, from a deeply moving account of his uncle's death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians - 'a desperate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths' - from descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny's life in the country.

Author: Pliny Younger The
ISBN-10: 9391560458
ISBN-13: 9789391560454
Publisher: Sanage Publishing House
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2021
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d